Proposing a research report is a problem-solving activity. The research proposal is not meant to propose a final “answer” to a problem. Instead, it is a “promise” to someone (your audience) that you have a plan to perform useful research and writing about a problem and its potential solutions.“Discovering” a problem to research can be […]

promptYou’re being asked to write a paper of 4-5 pages. This is a promptYou’re being asked to write a paper of 4-5 pages. This is a personal essay. This type of essay has an experience (yours) at its center rather than a text. The experience can be anything (sorry, but it’s true). Or it can […]

Prompt:Using only the three excerpts attached from 19th century travelers’ accounts of particular regions of Northeast and West Africa, construct an argument supporting, opposing, or revising John Iliffe’s view that Africa’s ancient rocks, poor soils, fickle rainfall, abundant insects, and unique prevalence of disease produced an environment hostile to agriculture and populations that were short […]

Prompt: Repatriation of Skeletal Remains ControversyIn the 17th century, it was common to sell Egyptian mummies to the public to use for medicinal purposes. As gruesome as it sounds, people routinely consumed mummified remains (or ground up skeletal remains) as a form of medicine to treat everything from headaches to epilepsy. Mummies were stolen from […]

Prompt: Pick one of the following four keywords: self-expression, community, discrimination, or labor (labor = forms of work). Write 3 short paragraphs explaining how this concept appears in each of the 3 articles you read for this week (listed in step 3 above) – one article per paragraph. Pay attention to how this theme plays […]